Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-04
Music and the Drama.

like Job Tressaly.
Music and the Drama.
Nine. Helene Hastretter will sing
in concert in st. Petersburg, Vienna
and Berlin.
Arthur Sullivan was $1100 out by
the performance of his Golden Legend
in Berlin.
Adelaide Moore sails for England on
June 1, and will star next season in
the English provinces.
Dixey is playing to light business in
New York. There is no longer at
tractiveness in Adonis for the metrop-
Offiis.
Minnie Maddern's company recently
gave the first dramatic performance
ever seen in Prescott, A. I. The re-
ceipts were 500.
Louis James will open his next sea-
son September 10Th in New York. He
has engaged Harry Langdon and
Harry Barton to support him.
Rose Coghlan, Osmond Tearle,
Kyrlle Bellew, John Gilbert and Nine.
Ponisi will be members Of the compa-
ny at Wallack's Theater next season.
Miss Bodington, an American girl,
has gained the Moscheles prize at
Leipslc this year. The test prize was
the composers great q minor con-
certo.
Charley Hoyt and Flora Walsh, his
bright little soubrette in the Tin Sol
dier Company, are to be married in
July. The ceremony will occur at
Charleston, Mass.
Although the season Is practically
over and the Interstate Commerce
bill has reared its horrid front, there
are 100 companies still on the road
the usual showing at this time OF year.
The american Israelite doesn't ap-
pear to have a very high opinion of
operas alleged to be sung in Hebrew. 1t
says they are jargon of corrupt Ger
man, while the music is decidedly
modern.
1t is said that Prof. Bishoff, of the
University OF Gratz, in Styria, has dis
covered a hitherto missing aria by
Beethoven. 1t is for soprano and ali
accompaniment of twelve orchestral
instruments.
1t is definitely announced that Mr..
Stanton signed contract with Herr
Seldi ON Monday last in Berlin, by
which the latte engages to return to
this country next October as conduc-
tor at the Metropolitan Opera House.
The new Opera House at Odessa.
when completed, will be one Of the
grandest in Europe. 1t will probably
be opened under the management OF
Mr.. Mapleson in the autumn. 1t has
been erected at a cost of 81 900, 900.
Negotiations are pending between
Gus Mortimer and AL Hayman which
will probably result in Louis James
and Marie Wainwright playing an en-
gagement of four week at the Baldwin
theatre, San Francisco, next season.
s.s s- Brooklyn, or at least [the Brooklyn
Board of Education, propose. to have
music taught in the public schools OF
that city. In the appropriation for
the current year the sum of $14,970
was included for special music teach
ers.
Miss Lillian Norton has been sing
ing Elsie in Sullivan's "Golden Leg
end" to great acceptance in London,
although the critics say she makes
too many faces and puts on too MANY
stage airs for the serious music of the
cOncert-room.
Helen Dauvray is greatly interested
in base ball matters, and has offered
a massive silver loving-cup as an en-
blem of the championship of America,
if meeting of the winners of the
league and association races can be
brought about.
Miss Traubmann, who made such a
strong impression at recent Philhar-
monic concert in Montreal, is pupil
of the American Conservatory of
Music, where she is still pursuing her
musical education under the supervi-
sion of Nine. Fursch-Madi.
Viennese musicians, now that Wag-
ner is dead and the glamour surround
ing his works is fading away, are be-
ginning to say that Wagnerian operas
are too severe on the voices, and are
calling for a greater variety Of compos-
ers and styles at the court opera.
Mary. johnson, OF Washington,
known on the operatic stage as Marie
Decca, recently made her London de-
but with the Carl Rosa company at
Drury Lane. She has already sung
with this company at Manchester and
other provincial cities, and has met
with success.
Gounod is now giving all his time
to the composition of a grand mass for
the Cathedral of Rheims, France. He
is said to declare that he will never
write for the stage again. To an old
friend he said recently: "The worldly
life is poor affair; religion is an
ocean of boundless grandeur"
Mile. Adolphine Zimair, German
soubrette, arrived in New York Fri
day for five weeks engagement al
} the Thalia theater in that city. 1t il